reconcile

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To reestablish a close relationship between.

transitive v. To settle or resolve.

transitive v. To bring (oneself) to accept: He finally reconciled himself to the change in management.

transitive v. To make compatible or consistent: reconcile my way of thinking with yours. See Synonyms at adapt.

intransitive v. To reestablish a close relationship, as in marriage: The estranged couple reconciled after a year.

intransitive v. To become compatible or consistent: The figures would not reconcile.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To recreate friendly relationships.

v. To make things compatible or consistent.

v. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To become reconciled.

transitive v. To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance.

transitive v. To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission.

transitive v. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.

transitive v. To adjust; to settle.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To conciliate anew; restore to union and friendship after estrangement or variance; bring again to friendly or favorable feelings.

To adjust; pacify; settle: as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.

To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission: with to.

To make consistent or congruous; bring to agreement or suitableness: often followed by with or to.

To rid of apparent discrepancies; harmonize: as, to reconcile the accounts of a fact given by two historians: often with with or to.

Eccles., to restore to sacred uses after desecration, or to unity with the church, by a prescribed ceremonial: as, to reconcile a church or a cemetery which has been profaned, as by murder; to reconcile a penitent (that is, to restore to communion one who has lapsed, as into heresy or schism).

To recover; regain.

In ship-building, to join (a piece of work) fair with another. The term refers particularly to the reversion of curves.

In dismissing the idea of a "truth and reconciliation commission," Obama also recognizes that the Republicans would show no remorse for the Bush administration's actions; that they would insist that there is nothing to "reconcile" -; and that they would stay on the attack, pummeling the Democrats as weak, overly sympathetic to terrorists, and endangering national security.